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So Well Remembered: James Hilton
$120.00From the author of Goodbye Mr. Chips and Random Harvest. As World War I comes to a close, George Boswell looks back on how his fate was inextricably tied to that of his sleepy English hometown As a young man, George Boswell knew he had greater prospects ahead than those offered by his native mill town in the north of England. A respected lawyer and civic leader, he possessed the skill and charisma to shine on the national stage. But ambition is not without a cost. When Boswell must choose between the promise of a bright future or staying behind for the people who have come to depend on him, his decision comes at a shocking price. A story of a people pulled reluctantly toward modernity amid the farms and factories of Lancashire, and a celebration of the steadfast character of the common English village. -
What Cheer? Ralph Frost
$40.00Merry stories for all occasions - some even a little bit saucy for 1929 and some not very P.C. for today's standards! Most are good fast snappies: Young Lady: When I marry, it will be to a man who is polished, upright and grand. Rejected Suitor: You don't want a man - you want a piano! Or...Bus Conductor to Young Lady: If you want to go to Hammersmith, Miss, you're on the wrong bus. Young Lady: But the bus has Hammersmith written on it! Conductor: It's got Nestle's Milk written on it as well, but we're not going to Switzerland. As you see, they are mostly nice clean ones that reflect the humour of the 1920s - making this a social time travel trip. -
A fabulously sage collection of wisdom and observations from the most brilliant mind of his day. Just a sample: 'Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.' Or...'The daily newspaper! The educator of the people! God help us, it might be so. It educates into inattention, folly, sin, vacuity and foolishness. It saps concentration, dissipates aspiration, scrambles grey matter and irons out convolutions. Watch the commuter rush for his Dope when he reaches the station in the morning.' That was written in 1927 - so not much has changed. Hubbard, were he alive today, would probably say the same of television or the Internet. -
Subtitled Being a Series of Bouquets Diffidently Distributed. Nichols interviews the luminaries of his day from the world of art, literature and music. Each chapter describes his interview or friendship and leaves an outline, an impression, of his subject: Noel Coward; Arthur Conan Doyle; George Gershwin; Eugene Goossens; W. Somerset Maugham; Dame Nellie Melba; Aldous Huxley; H.G. Wells - and more - and... were they the same when at home? -
Former psychiatric nurse turned comedienne Jo Brand, best known here for her appearances on QI and Getting On, does not hold back on her opinions of men and the balls-up they've made of the world. No-one escapes - From Henry VIII to Mao Zedong to Elvis Presley, everyone gets equal roasting. On Sid Vicious: They had their own special language, which involved the use of phrases like, 'F*** off, you tosser,' particularly if they liked someone...On Martin Luther: Being declared a heretic in those days wasn't a barrel of laughs - it didn't take much for you to be playing the starring kebab role. On Rasputin: ...hair greasy enough to fry an egg on, eyes that would have been at home in Marty Feldman's face and a tunic that could make it back to Siberia on its own...' There's plenty of Jo Brand's particular brand of irreverent wryness to shock you into laughs. -
Having exorcised the late Mr Stebbings, the awful wallpaper, the hideous leadlight window, the holly hedge and other acts of vandalism committed by the previous owners - Nichols sets about restoring the Georgian manor Merry Hall the gardens to their former glory while braving the wrath of village locals who regard the inappropriate building additions as a monument to the late Mr Stebbings' 'good taste.' As always, Beverley is accompanied by his beloved pet cats who, of course, have their say on all improvements. Illustrated by William McLaren. -
South Australian Matilda Jane Evans, writing under the pseudonym Maud Jeanne Franc, published 14 novels between 1859 and 1885 set in South Australia. These domestic, religious and temperance novels represent a significant contribution of literature to the young colony and demonstrated it was possible to live a worthy spiritual life, dispelling the preconcieved idea that all colonials were necessarily rough and degenerate. Women were represented as being particularly influential in the religious and moral life of the community. The 'Golden Gifts' of the title are their talents and the rich earth of the new country. -
Into this quiet Old country castle on its rounded hill-top there came, one April day in the year 1533, a baby boy - quite an ordinary mite in every way. No one guessed then all that the helpless little one would do when he came to manhood, or that centuries after his death his name would be held in loving reverence by a nation living far from quiet Dillenburg. The story of William, eldest son of Count William of Nassau and the beginnings of the Protestant Church. -
Weddings, disappointments, Christmas, sea storms and exotic India are all involved in what seems to be a very dramatic narrative. First published in 1879 and with four editions between 1879 and 1880, a review from c. 1891/1892 states that: 'Miss Brodie's stories have that savour of religious influence and teaching which makes them valuable as companions of the home.' -
Book 3 of the Stories From History series. Contains William Of Normandy; Hereward The Wake; The Bridal Of Norwich; In The New Forest; Emperor And Pope; The Adventures Of Robert Guiscard; The First Crusade; Richard The Lionheart; More Adventures Of King Richard; Marco Polo; St. Thomas Of Canterbury; The Abbot Of Bury St. Edmonds; St. Francis; The Coming Of The Friars; On Pilgrimage; King John And The Barons; The Builder; The Prince Of Wales; Robert Bruce; William Tell; Merchants And Pirates; Six Brave Men; The Manor of Oakthorpe; Dick Whittington; Five Hundred Years Ago; For St. George And England; Saint Joan; Prince Henry Of Portugal; Moors And Christians; The Tale Of An Old Book. Handsomely illustrated with black and white plates and engravings. -
Ghostland: Elliot O’Donnell
$90.00Britain's most famous ghost hunter tells of his childhood experiences and encounters with ghosts , as well as touching on a wealth of other paranormal events: corpse candles, elementals, curses, doubles or 'doppelgangers', the hauntings of the Thames Embankment and much more from his vast store of personal experience. -
Only A Tramp: Grace Stebbing
$45.00Mr Charles Wynn, the Tramp of Silverdale Rectory, makes a reappearance. -
A tale set in 1336, of two brothers who are devoted to each other - until both become enamoured of the same lady. It comes down to a duel - which has far-reaching consequences over the ensuing years. First published in 1848. -
If you want Irish oatmeal bread, Italian bread sticks, French or Alsatian sourdough bread, Jewish honey cakes, Swedish limpa, German buttermilk rye or the more exotic German farmer's herb-parmesan bread, you'll find it all here - and much, much more. John Braué has lovingly collected priceless recipes which have been handed down family to family, baker to baker, friend to friend, for generations. But this book is more than that; it's also an entertaining primer of fascinating bread lore covering the different properties of flours, the vast differences in recipe results due to climate, altitude and ovens; and the little known techniques of baking perfection. Tucked between the recipes are dozens of wise hints on the good life, good baking, good humor - and good eating. -
After Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) came Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln, who was an instructor at the Boston Cooking School, where she influenced a generation of cooking professionals, including Fannie Farmer, with her methods based in the '...chemistry and philosophy of food.' Mrs Lincoln published The Boston Cook Book in 1883 and it became a standard in American kitchens and was also widely used in cooking classrooms. Specific instruction in the basics of technique, kitchen set-up, and preparation insured that young and/or inexperienced cooks would have great success with Mrs. Lincoln's recipes. This edition dated is 1921, the year Mrs. Lincoln died. -
Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Miss Buckley, the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo. Poirot takes a particular interest in the young woman who has recently narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents; he feels that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with Miss Buckley - but who? And why? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And this time, the killer might succeed... -
The cream of classic literati in Vogue articles and shorts. In this volume: Conversational Kleptomania and Patchwork, G.B. Stern; Rather Late For Christmas, Here We Stand and There Was No More Sea, Mary Ellen Chase; A Prologue To America, Thomas Wolfe; My Life Is An Open Book, Clifton Fadiman; Home To Truro, Robert Nathan; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming, Ernest Hemingway; The World Within Us and I Remember Christmas In France, André Maurois; The Weather Of Our Soul and Red Mountain, Irwin Edman; Four Painters, Henrik Willem Van Loon; You're On The Air Now, What This Country Needs, My Friends, Is More Love and Decor and the Morons, Ilka Chase; Souvenir, Splendide Apartment, I Love You - I Love You - I Love You, Chile Con Amore and No Trouble At All, Ludwig Bemelmans; Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood, Carson McCullers; Happy Land and Now At Last A House of My Own, Katherine Anne Porter; The China You Don't Know, Helena Kuo; The Old Home Town and Five Pretty Little Fables, William Saroyan; Churchill's Favourite Aunt, Oliver St. John Gogarty; Dinner With Turbot, Ford Madox Ford; Landscape - With Figures, Frederic Prokosch; Nehru of India, Krishnalal Shridharani; I Remember Christmas In Holland, Pierre Van Paassen; I Remember Christmas In Belgium,Robert Goffin; Humour - The Bomb-Proof Kind, Virginia Cowles; They're Human After All, Katharine Brush; Chungking's Broadway, Clare Boothe; Ten Answers on Japan, Wilfred Fleisher; They Never Got Into My Column, Major George Fielding Eliot; But Where Is Picasso? André Géry; Something To Remember You By, Sylvia Thompson; I Like The Circus, Paul Gallico; The Impossible Glory, Rebecca West; The Scars of London, Cecil Beaton; Gertrude Stein In France, Thérèse Bonney; Me And The French, Margaret Case Harriman; Murder In The Music Room, Samuel Chotzinoff; Art and Camouflage, Elliot Paul; Off-Stage Noises, Aline Bernstein; Sarah Bernhardt Left Them Kneeling, Laurette Taylor; File No. 113, Robert Simon; Do Men Like Witty Women? Stephen Leacock; In A Velvet Glove, Allene Talmey; Dry Tortugas, Archibald MacLeish; Southern Exposure, Ralph McGill; Waiter, Bring Me Anything; Edward Bosley Jnr; A Wit With A Whim of Iron, The House of Vanderbilt, The Mrs. Astor I Remember, We Have With Us This Evening and Fashions in Painting, Frank Crowninshield; Fanny - You Fool! and I Sing While I Cook, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The Lady is An Engineer, Patricia Strauss; I Saw The Moscow Blitz, Margaret Bourke-White; The Wine-Diver, V. Shishkov; Now...Twenty Centuries Later, James Hilton; The Voice Of Africa, Stuart Cloete; Bucks County Auction, Josephine Herbst; Perennial Immortality and My Favourite Cooks, Lee Simonson; No Bed Of Roses, Isabel Paterson; Orson, The Wizard, Welles, J.P. McEvoy; Anything For A Laugh, Max Eastman; Thanks To Casey Jones, John Mason Brown; American Women...So Pretty, Jules Romains; Renaissance Profiles, Leo Lerman; The Infant Gourmet, Sheila Hibben; The Position of Women in Music, Sir Thomas Beecham; These Grapes Need Sugar, Rex Stout; Forty - When The Baby Was Born, Maddy Vegtel; Women of Fashion In Tehuantepec, Miguel Covarrubias; Raphaels Without Hands, The Passing of The Blops and Woman's Place In The Dark Room, M.F. Agha; Winston Churchill's American Mother, Millicent Fenwick; I Wanted To Draw and Embroidery, Ivy Low; Chautauqua Week, Vincent Sheean; I Remember Billy Mitchell, Major Alexander P. De Seversky; War On Our Road, Jan Spiess; What Makes An Orator? and I Remember Christmas In Austria, Leo Lania; Who's Loony Now, Alexander King. -
From the introduction: 'The whole five are sober youngsters - none of them drinks. Gilbert is a very jolly fellow.. O'Meally is a murderous looking scoundrel. Ben Hall is a quiet, good looking fellow, lame one leg having been broken, he is the eldest...and the leader...Vane is a big sleepy-looking man. Mickey Burke is small. They seem at all times to be most thoroughly self-possessed and to understand each other perfectly...they are not likely to quarrel.' A fascinating A4 book, possibly a desk top publication, with black and white photos. A small part yet vital part of the romanticism of Australia's bushranging era of the 1860s.
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